Trap the Mouse

As we develop

Skill
Gymnastics
Gymnastics

Instructions

  • Lie on your back
  • Arms straight and stretched behind your head
  • Keep arms and legs touching the floor
  • Partner should put hands under your back
  • Squeeze tummy down and push back to the floor

Questions

Can you see the “mouse hole” under your partner’s back?

Further Teaching Points

  • Encourage Angry Cat back

Body Conditioning

Improves

  • Posture
  • Core stability
  • Strength of stomach

Adapting the activity

  • Enable

    • Lift head to feel back on floor
    • Try with knees bent up
    • Try with legs straight and arms by your side
    • Keep mouse trapped and move from straight to Dish to straight
  • Challenge

    • Roll the shape over
    • Practice lifting the drawbridge with a partner

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Trap the Mouse